Leadership Forum, 9 April
The Political Dilemmas of Leadership Ethics
Tuesday, 9 April
12 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
Queen's Ballroom, Level 5
Hilton Brisbane
Developed and led by Carl Rhodes, Professor of Organisation Studies and Deputy Dean, UTS Business School
Facilitated by Sonja Dunphy, Managing Director, Richmond Associates
Important Note: This will run concurrently with the Schools Programme at Brisbane Grammar School, Road Map to Advancement, and Philanthropy and the Role of Academic Leadership.
The Leadership Forum is APAC's executive leadership program that enables advancement leaders from various institutions to look at key leadership challenges and strategies in order to be effective in their roles. This forum is developed for Directors, Principals, Deans, Deputy or Pro-Vice Chancellors (or equivalent) and senior heads of higher education institutions and schools featuring topics on leadership, strategy and general management.
Overview:
What are the unique ethical challenges that face today's managers and leaders? How do we experience and practice ethics amidst the complex politics of organisational life? This lively and interactive session will address these questions by exploring how leadership ethics, for it to be practical and meaningful, must involve the exercise of power in challenging contexts where the conflicting needs of all the people involved cannot all be met. This is an ethics where there are no easy or self-indulgent moral positions to retreat to. In place we find a ‘difficult ethics' that asks challenging questions about how leaders navigate the moral and political maze of organisational life and the effects of that on others.
Learning Outcomes:
In this session, participants will:
- Review and reconsider their own implicit and explicit understanding of the meaning and practice of ethics in the context of leadership
- Assess the unique ethical and political dimensions of the challenges that face today's managers and professionals
- Identify what they can change about their own leadership practice in order to achieve fair outcomes and be more responsive to ethical dilemmas
Program
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11:15 a.m. |
Registration |
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12 p.m. |
Lunch |
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12:45 p.m. |
Welcome and Introductions • Introductions of participants and facilitator |
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1 p.m. |
Session 1: The Ethics of Ethics • Brainstorm: What is ethics? |
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1:30 p.m. |
Session 2: Difficult Freedom... Difficult Ethics • Case study: Leadership ethics in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill |
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3 p.m. |
Coffee and Conversations |
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3:30 p.m. |
Session 3: Leadership and Justice • Case Study: The politics of executive compensation |
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4 p.m. |
Session 4: Political Dilemmas and Leadership • Exercise: People vs productivity in management decision making |
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5 p.m. |
Wrap-Up |
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5:15 p.m. |
End of Forum |
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5:45 p.m. |
APAC Welcome Reception Sponsored by: 
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7:15 p.m. |
End of Reception |
Speaker:
Carl Rhodes
Professor of Organisation Studies and Deputy Dean
UTS Business School
Carl Rhodes is Professor of Organisation Studies and Deputy Dean at the University of Technology Sydney Business School. His research investigates the ethical and political dimensions of management and leadership. Carl's most recent books are CEO Society: The Corporate Takeover of Everyday Life (Zed, 2018 with Peter Bloom), and The Companion to Ethics and Politics in Organizations (Routledge, 2015 with Alison Pullen). His next book, Disturbing Business Ethics: Emmanuel Levinas and The Politics of Organizational Life, will be published by Routledge in 2020. Carl regularly contributes to the media with articles and commentary on issues related to ethics, politics and management.
Facilitator:
Sonja Dunphy
Managing Director
Richmond Associates
Sonja brings extensive experience of executive search and human resource management to client organisations. Since re-joining Richmond Associates in 2015, she has successfully recruited advancement professionals for a wide range of clients in the not-for-profit sector, including INSEAD, Oriel College Oxford, Trinity College Dublin, University of Bristol, University of Leicester, University of Surrey, and many more. Prior to this, Sonja worked in the education sector with CASE Asia-Pacific on their inaugural Institute in Educational Fundraising, CASE Europe on their European Projects and Membership Development, and subsequently as the Head of Alumni Relations for The Rhodes Trust during their 110th Anniversary and £150 million Campaign for the Second Century.
Sponsored by:
